How to build an opera singer | Canadian Opera Company | TEDxToronto 

This is what TED is about - teaching with demonstration - not just people talking about their life.

My vocal teacher sent me the link to this video, and I suspect it's because she wanted to prove to me that all the "inner tube and angel wing" imagery she employs does indeed have a physiological impact. It's great to see her teaching methods explained like this!

So clearly and simply all explained. Makes me never want to stop the singing journey I just started !

The way she advocates preparing the breath is strongly reminiscent of the way I've been instructed to set up for weight lifting. Very interesting.

The opera singers vocies were so beautiful. I learned so much from watching this video. Its very inspiring. Im planning to become an opera singer myself.

This was my dream from I was 5 years old. I love opera. 🌹

Being rather old I was fortunate enough to hear some of the REALLY GREAt opera singers of the 20th century live, eg Franco Corelli, Mario del Monaco, Giusepe do Stefano, Cesare Siepi, Carlo Bergonzi, Ettore Bastianini, Tito Gobbi, Boris Kristoff, Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Birgit.Nilsson, Teresa Berganza, Teresa Stratas, Mirella Freni and many others. All I can say is that despite all the additional scientific knowledge re the vocal chords, the anatomy of the larynx, the breath production/control, muscle function and much more knowledge on how the voice is produced and trained, all I can say is that the singers of the current generation are but a pale shadow compared to those I saw on the opera stages in my youth.

“Brain training to sequentially perform tasks to support singing” these are really helpful

As a want-to-be singer, this is now my favorite Ted Talk.

OMG her scarf...

This is mind blowing for me. Maybe this style has become more common place at high level schools, but all the vocal training I’ve received has been exactly as they described, consistent vague metaphors that force me to internally interpret those cues into physical responses, rather than just giving me the bio mechanical cueing outright. That’s not to say that the metaphors aren’t effective for improving your voice, just that they are inconsistent

Perfect.... that was all i always looking for. I could easily see the difference in my voice just by doing the same practise.... now i am ready to enroll in a music college.😍

nice demonstration for all singers to watch

If she doesn’t fix her scarf in 0.5 seconds I’m going to scream

We need more opera in our life!!! Thank u so much ❤

I need these people. My opera voice is dying in the Caribbean.

When the intro played i was surprised! I had that music in my mind a couple of minutes earlier.

two wonderful singers

Amazing piercing frequency danika sings at. Beautiful.

Great video. Excellent work Iain!

How about teaching a 49 year old man who always wanted to try singing opera, but has spent the last 29 years in and out of hospital? Long story...but I really wanted to be a opera singer, but was never taught how to achieve that rich tenor operatic tone. 29 years, 11 chronic illness, 34 brutal surgeries has destroyed my vocal cords...any chance they can be saved and I could finally live my dream now that I survived the 4 times I was suppose to die? As a teen, I sang tenor or first bass in 5 different choirs, but my voice is ruined after all those surgeries, from your experience, is it possible to strengthen my voice so I can sing again, and hopefully, learn how,to sing opera? I live here in Toronto, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

i am so in love with the sopranooooo

What you're here for starts at 12:48 (it's all very good, but here's where you learn the concrete steps to improve your breathing). Grab a towel with palms facing up and follow these three step (to create and sustain a lateral rib expansion): 1. Shift your weight out of your heels. 2. Draw the pelvis up and back (activating the transverse abdominus) 3. Pull the towel away from the midline (firing your lats)

This was amazing but all I was distracted by was her ill proportioned scarf. Wonderful informative data.

I so love this! ❤

Wonderful, great information. I need to know more!

Excellent job. Would like to be 30 years younger and learn with you!!! Excellent!

5:53 I’m sure that offended a lot of people 😂

I am alone in my room and I cant stop clapping

Even though the soprano sung the Queen of the Night aria lower, still impressive! She made the lower key work.

she killed that

I was thinking about the last aria lippen from lehar!

Thank you.

I wanna be an opera singer

Wow!!!

Awesome

OMG DANIKA'S VOICE

All the voice is staying into singers after such kind of lessons.

She wasn't begging, she was forcing. Voice spreading.

Chest cage establishment is still the foundation upon which all the other parts of support depend and a soft well supported legato, is the test. I did not hear that in the final duet. I heard spectacle rather than mutually seductive passion. FORMANT shifting is the engine room of passion and legato.

litle voices

What is the name of last performance?? Please let me know!!!

I want to be able to sing Christine's AAA... Aa... Aa... Aa.AAAAAAA.........

I am 22 and wondering if I am too old or young to really learn opera singing. I sang in high school but not so much in community college but have always been praised for my voice. I originally wanted to go to school to be an opera singer but I couldn't and still can't read music, so I went into something else. I still have my own mini library of opera songbooks, music books and am involved with my city's opera house. Though I have a soulful passion for opera, I always get very nervous when I have to sing. Is it really worth taking 10+ years at my age to learn operatic singing when it may all be for naught?

she didn't sing the usual high F in Queen of the night, she sang an Eb, probably cause its morning, none the less it sounded good

I love them all!!!!! i want to marry danika!!!!!!!1 im crying

Wouldn't it be simpler to send them to ballet classes where all of the aforementioned stature targets are basic to ballet?

Why is the Queen of the Night aria down a tone?!

I'd be afraid that if I 'release my abdominal floor', I'll have an accident in my trousers.

I live in the NJ/NYC area. Where and how can I find a kinesthetic consultant to help me with my vocal training?

They could have turned the mics on for the last part.

Ian becomes way more attractive when he sings for some reason. Not sure why.

I want to sing opera, amateur Messa Soprano

The song is featured in Star Wars, Not Harry Potter...

4:43 What's the name of the song ?

Porqué está en si b? Es muy confuso

Where the tenors are??

High notes Microphone.exe stopped working

OMG.

the moment loren sang magic flute im like "plz marry me xd" hope this is not creepy xd

But there's a mic in the singers hair!!! Was it turned off?

Can someone who doesn't have a good singing voice become good at opera singing?

Canadian opera company Coc

12:55

18:22 she says : I wanna die in italian wow that’s amazing 😉 !

Who are these people? Names in the titles please.

I'ma a natural but taking notes

I'm only here because Amira Willighagen inspired me to sing. She's just pure gold, her voice takes me out of this realm

This is GREAT!!!!! Hahahaha!!!

In China, most of the audiences cannot understand this. They hardly reach the youtue. Could you upload video to China websites? Or I download it and send it there.

I struggled to hear the singers without the mics on this talk. I wish opera would permit mics

WE FOUND IT MEN, WE FOUND *COC*

I don't think this is a very good example. No teacher has ever used metaphor ...they trained my muscles and my voice with a series of diff exercises then tried to apply it to arias and songs. They kept it all pretty sensible and grounded.

Mi sembra che il teatro la scala sia il più importante al mondo e tutt'ora lavora...

Qué manera de marear a estos dos chicos

Sorry i started to tune out when she was giving the instructions - she uses far too much technical terminology - and tuned back in when he had to sing adn then i wondered, did all he have to do was hold the towel in that postion to prevent the rib cage from collapsing. I will try it but not until tomorrow. Apart from that, is it really necessary to use all those technical physiological terms.I agree that instructions should be concrete instead of metaphoric and abstract but too much jargon is a pain.

What is the point of demonstrating what she said earlier if she is singing with microphones? It defeats the purpose of her explanation.

It was so good I almost peed my pants.

the mozart's queen of night is a bit out of tune

A fun talk, but mostly nonsense. If it weren't nonsens the singers would have better technique. He is woofy and she has mixed her registers, producing very shrill tones.

She forgott about heavy metal

Pinza‘a stance

They were happy enough to grope the poor guy in the blue shirt.

0:44 nope lady, that's video games 👌

Ellie Goulding is a pop singer and her songs are NOT easy ma’am! Lights has octave jumps in chest voice... in the verses!

Queen of the night one step lower seriously ?

Asymmetry is a vibe, but this lady's scarf is just so wrong. I cannot watch this. If i was in the audience i would have honestly leapt up and tugged it into place

I don't like how they mock the popular singers and their training. You don't need to revile or humiliate others work or profession to demonstrate that yours is good enough. Actually, I prefer to think both popular and Opera singers should be using the same techniques for breathing and support. We are all using the air to sing after all.

I disagree about the largest known art form part -- I don't think that opera is the largest known art form known to man.

Is this why all young singers nowadays sound exactly the same, with sounds indistinguishable from each other, and with their jaws shaking when they hold the note, as if they were chewing gum?

5:45 what the heck is she talking about ? She had a microphone to her left cheek the whole time.

Is it only me or does the Kinetic Consultant seem a little too happy about getting to touch that Ian boy?

Not wishing to be classified as sexist Lilly Prince but why have tests shown that only 24% of a soprano's words are discernible to the audience when, with a baritone, it is 100%. It seems to me that the need to raise the FORMANT by opening the mouth vertically makes four of the five Cardinal vowels unachievable? Can you sing an [I] vowel with your mouth wide open vertically?

this is outdated. Most teachers today do not teach the way she is insulting the profession. Geez . We all know this info it is not new.

Hello: I am contacting you today because there is a considerable discussion about true bel canto and how it is done. There are four components of true bel canto: the lift of the throat, the mask of the face, the inhalation of the voice, and the holding of the breath. It is the inhalation of the voice that is causing all the discussion--some people do not believe that people can sing by inhaling thier voice. Of course, many people know a little about this way of singing and that it is called "Inhalare (Inalare) La Voce" or Inhaling the voice) to sing. I would like you to confirm that bel canto uses inhalation of the voice to produce sound. The second issue is regarding the way that inhalation of the voice occurs. In true bel canto, the voice is continuously inhaled into the mouth to create sound and air exhales through the nose which creates a swirling confluence of air...and it is an actual inhalation of the air into the head and NOT just an imagined act--is that correct. We need you to tell us if these two above mention components are how true bel canto produces sound. Thank you James LePage

it is sooo obvious, come on. Expert lol

12:43 Dam grab me a piece

Queen of the night--amazing--so easy and resonant in her voice. That's real technique. The baritone not so much.

Pretty holier than thou, don't you think?

No, she needs to work on reading the music her syllables are off pause and hesitation it isnt start stop start stop ,mid verse...and shouldnt be a competition of sheer volume at duet...she isnt performing a solo its a duet and when she is overstaging the orchestra melody and other singer she is doing the biggest no no everyone learns from the beginning if i can hear you over everything else you have failed..